ROS Awards 2022 outcomes – Robohub

The ROS Awards are the Oscars of the ROS world! The intention of those awards is to precise recognition for contributions to the ROS group and the event of the ROS-based robotic trade, and to assist these contributions achieve consciousness.

Conditions

• Selection of the winners is made by nameless on-line voting over a interval of two weeks
• Anybody within the ROS group can vote by way of the voting enabled web site
• Organizers of the awards present an preliminary record of 10 potential initiatives for every class however the record will be elevated at any time by anyone through the voting interval
• Since the Awards are organized by The Construct none of its merchandise or builders will be voted
• Winners are introduced on the ROS Developers Day yearly convention
• New on 2022 version: Winners of earlier editions can’t win once more, with the intention to not focus the deal with the identical initiatives on a regular basis. Remember, with these awards, we wish to assist unfold all ROS initiatives!

Voting

1. Every individual can solely vote as soon as in every class
2. You can’t change your solutions after getting submitted your vote
3. Voting is closed 3 days earlier than the convention, and an inventory of the finalists per every class is introduced in the identical week
4. Voters can’t use flaws within the system to affect voting. Any detection of making an attempt to trick the system will disqualify the votes. You can, although, promote your favourite amongst your networks so others vote for it.

Measures have been taken to stop as a lot as potential batch voting from a single individual.

Categories

Best ROS Software

The Best ROS Software class contains any software program that runs with ROS. It generally is a bundle revealed on the ROS.org repo of only a software program that makes use of ROS libraries to supply an enter. Open Source and closed supply are each legitimate.

Finalists

1. Ignition Gazebo, by Open Robotics
2. Groot Behavior Tree, by Davide Faconti
3. Webots, by Cyberbotics
4. SMACC2, by Brett Aldrich
5. ros2_control, by a number of ROS builders
6. PlotJuggler, by Davide Faconti

Winner: Webots, by Cyberbotics

Learn extra in regards to the winner on this video:

Best ROS-Based Robot

The Best ROS-Based Robot class consists of any robotic that runs ROS inside it. They will be robotics merchandise, robots for analysis, or robots for schooling. In all circumstances, they should be operating ROS inside.

Finalists

1. Panda robotic arm, by Franka Emika
2. TIAGo, by Pal Robotics
3. UR robotic arm, by Universal Robots
4. Turtlebot 4, by Clearpath
5. Nanosaur, by Raffaello Bonghi
6. Leo Rover, by Leo Rover

Winner: Nanosaur, by Raffaello Bonghi

Learn extra in regards to the winner on this video:

Best ROS Developer

Developers are those that create all of the ROS software program that we love. The Best ROS Developer class permits you to vote for any developer who has contributed to ROS growth in a single sense or one other.

Finalists

1. Francisco Martín
2. Davide Faconti
3. Raffaello Bonghi
4. Brett Aldrich
5. Victor Mayoral Vilches
6. Pradheep Krishna

Winner: Francisco Martín

Learn extra in regards to the winner on this video:

Insights from the 2022 Edition

1. This 12 months, the third time we organise the awards, we have now elevated the overall variety of votes by 500% So we will say that the winners are illustration of the sentiments of the group.
2. Still this 12 months, the winners of earlier editions acquired many votes. Fortunately, we utilized the brand new rule of not permitting to win earlier winners, to offer area for different ROS initiatives have the deal with the group, and therefore assist to create a wealthy ROS ecosystem.

Conclusions

The ROS Awards began in 2020 with a primary version the place the winners had been among the greatest and well-known initiatives within the ROS world. In this third version, we have now massively elevated the variety of votes from the earlier version. We count on this award will proceed to contribute to the spreading of excellent ROS initiatives.

See you once more at ROS Awards 2023!

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